St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-16
Nine BODIES RECOVERED.
A Terrific and Fatal Collision Of Trains
at a Crossing in st. Thomas,
Ont.
The Cars Take Fire and Many Of the
Passengers Suffer Death by
Cremation.
The Werk of Rescuing the Wounded and
Recovering the Dead Continued
ALI Night.
Serious Blazes at Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, Montreal and Bath---The
Casualty Record.

ST. THOMAS, Ont, July 15.-An ex-
cursiOn train on the London d Port
Stanley railway was run into this even
ing at crossing in this city by the Can
ada Southern freight train. The engine
of the freight train went clear through
the passenger train and rolled into the
ditch. 1t is reported that the engineer
is under his engine: that one lady pas
sengar has been burned to death and
that several others are missing.
A later telegram says: y terrible
accident occurred at the crossing of the
Grand Trunk and the Michigan Central
railroads. in this city, about z O'Clock
this evening. An excursion train on the
Grand Trunk from Port Mandy ran into
passenger freight train Oh the Michi-
gan Central, made up of a number of
cars laden with oil. The engine
crashed into one of these cars, when the
oil instantly took fire and burned with
great fierceneSS, communicating to the
ears on both trains and extending TO
Griffin'S warehouse. The coal and lime
sheds adjoining the track on the west
and John Campbel's dwelling on the
east all were burned to the ground, with
of the excursion train, was burned
in the wreck. His fireman
jumped and escaped with slight
injuries. The forward car of the eXcur-
sion train was filled with passengers,
who made frantic efforts to escape, but
Notwithstanding hundreds of brave and
willing hands were Immediately at work
to assist in their rescue, it is feared a
number of lives have been lost and the
bodies will be burned beyond recOgni-
ton before they can be got out of the
wreck. At o'clock, when thousands
of people were crOwding around the
burning pile, one of the oil tanks on the
cars suddenly exploded, throwing hun
dreds to the ground with great force
and scattering fire in all directions and
severely, perhaps fatally injuring many.
At $50 O'Clock nine bodies were taken
out. They were burned to crisp.
1t is almost impossible to a scertain
with any certain ty the names of those
LOST IN THE WRECK.
There are many conflicting rumOrS,
but it seems almost certain that III.
Donnelly, Mr.. SeaIand, a clerk, and
his child, and the wife and child of
James SmitherS. a dry goods merchant,
were burned to death. Mrs. Sealand was
got out badly burned. Among those in
jured by the explosion are the following:
Herman Pallsford. a bricklayer, it is feared
fatally; Nelson Gadsby, a blacksmith, burned
on the head; W. II. Joyce, engineer Grand
Trunk railway, badly burned on both
arms; ". II. Wabaum, chief of the fire
department, burned on the neck: Charles
Dake of the Dake House. burned on the
hands and back; Richard Woodruff, back
and neck burned: Oliver NOrswarthy, back
and neck burned; Archie Norswarthy, neck
and arms burned.
A son of NJ. 4. Pats, master me-
chanic of the Michigan Central rail-
road, was burned on the neck, and
scores of others who were
taken to their homes before
their names could be learned
gangs of men under the direction of
Superintendent Marford and Assistant
Superintendent MOOrehead, of the Michi-
gan Central railroad, and J. Stewart,
agent for the Grand Trunk road, are
hard at work removing the debris and it
is expected that the track will be cleared
by daylight. All the telegraph wires
were destroyed and several poles were
burned, thus interrupting cOmmunica-
tiOu